boxgrinder/boxgrinder-build — comment on commit 251e31d2fa8f4ad4aa46db5f48d4be983feed4f4
File: Rakefile line 34
By msavy:

Yeah, I noticed it was C when I was developing.

Cutting it out as a requirement is going to cause a problem for people who don't install BG via RPM, and for those who are porting it to the likes of Ubuntu. On the other hand there are plenty of non-Ruby deps too.

I think we could use a conditional that checks to see whether there is a require-able libvirt already, else declare ruby-libvirt as a requirement - i've seen it done in gemfiles. I'm not sure how to do that with Echoe though rather than directly (or there might be another better method altogether, we can ask the other guys).

I vote we cut it out for 0.10.0, and investigate a more flexible method for the next release.